By 2050, an estimated 50% of the world's population will be nearsighted, and nearly a billion people will suffer from severe ...

France's health minister on Friday sought to reassure consumers that all suspicious infant formula had been withdrawn, as an ...

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer, most often caused by exposure to asbestos, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Africa is no longer in the grip of a public health emergency over mpox though the viral infection "remains endemic in several ...

A Canadian medical report published Friday found no evidence linking environmental factors to an unusual set of neurological ...

Throwing another log into a crackling fireplace on a cold winter's night might seem like a cozy, harmless tradition. But ...

A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an ...

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the role of a gene called PTPN2 in protecting the gut from harmful bacteria ...

Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer in men. A new study from Thomas Jefferson University uncovered a new ...

Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

Williams-Beuren syndrome is a rare, congenital disease in which the main morbidity and mortality comes from obstructions, or ...